[Haskell-beginners] Haskell Serialization

[Stephen Tetley]

On 11 May 2010 19:16, Daniel Fischer <daniel.is.fischer at web.de> wrote:

> Int8 and Word8 are unproblematic (unless you have a ones-complement
> machine), the problems appear only for larger types, [SNIP]


Hi Daniel

Likely I was revealing a personal bias on that one, the only protocol
I've implemented where Int8 has featured has been MIDI.

If MIDI isn't ones-complement, my codes - I've written decoders /
encoders several times - have been wrong for years...

Best wishes

Stephen